Canadian Friends of Burma and MiningWatch Canada distributed a document on Monday, September 18, 2000, which purports to be a report on mining in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma... References to Ivanhoe Mines and its Myanmar copper project within the three documents contain blatant falsehoods. The documents are contradictory, bizarre and defamatory. They cite alleged events which, in truth, never happened. They have the wrong companies in the wrong places in the wrong deals... Addressing Ivanhoe's 50%-owned Monywa Copper Project...[one] document claims evidence of serious human rights violations, serious groundwater pollution and deplorable safety standards at Monywa. This is a double falsehood on all three counts. No such failures have occurred at, or been caused by, the Ivanhoe project... As a principal sponsor of the report, Canadian Friends of Burma rejected offers by Ivanhoe Mines and Ivanhoe Capital to assist with fact checking on the contents of the report, prior to its release... To our knowledge, no attempt was ever made by the author, Roger Moody, by Canadian Friends of Burma or by MiningWatch Canada to check the many false references in the report. [also refers to Mining Enterprise No. 1]